Before I started my personal finance journey, I knew almost nothing about money management. Needless to say, there was a huge learning curve. A huge part of this journey has been setting financial goals to create some direction for me. This has been such a game-changer in helping me to take control of my financial […]
One of the first conversations my husband and I had when we got engaged was the money talk. We had already talked about finances before, but getting married meant it was 100% necessary that we get in sync and make sure we were on the same page when it came to financial goals. And the […]
Confession: I used to be really bad about impulse shopping. In college, I would go to the mall, only to leave a few hundred dollars poorer and with bags of clothing that I would probably only wear a few times. After college, I became an emotional shopper and would resort to spending money instead of […]
When you’re new to budgeting, it can be really difficult to figure out how much money you should be spending on each area of your life. How much should we be spending on rent? Groceries? And how much can we spend on fun things like nights out and vacations? I remember moving to a new […]
Do you have a monthly budget? I was probably in my early to mid-twenties before I created my first monthly budget. It was definitely eye-opening – I honestly had no idea how much money I was spending every month! When I first started budgeting, I just used a simple spreadsheet. However, there are so many […]
I think we can all agree that money management can be pretty overwhelming, and the learning curve seems pretty steep at times. There was a time in my mid-twenties when I really felt like I had gotten my money shit together, and my financial future didn’t seem all that scary. And then I got divorced […]
I don’t know about you, but I almost always have more on my to-do list than I can possibly get done. I write my daily to-do list in my daily planner. I also have a running to-do list in Asana of tasks that haven’t made it onto my calendar yet. And let me tell you, […]
I love to read, so it’s no surprise that when I was finally ready to tackle my finances, I turned to books to help me. These days most of us have some serious personal finance goals that we’re trying to meet. More of us are graduating from college loaded with debt, and just the idea […]
If I’m being honest, I haven’t always had my financial shit together. I spent much of my twenties struggling financially and waiting for things to turn around. But like other areas of your life, you aren’t likely to succeed financially without having direction and something specific to work toward. And once I started getting specific […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty much always looking for ways to save a bit of money every month. In fact, finding a few key areas in our budget to cut back and a few ways to get a little extra cash have helped us tremendously in reaching our financial goals. Unfortunately, sometimes […]